Musing on purity of expression this morning. So much affects the nature of human expression. The caffeine and sugar for breakfast, the despair of the person at the next table in the coffee shop. Even physiology and lineage give form to expression. Color.
Every thought, every gesture is an expression of human form. But what about essence, the basic nature that is more fundamental than all influences?
It is possible to approach the truth. A rich variety of tools and practices exist for following the thread to source. Peeling the layers of influence from drugs, education and pollution, the things that color that primary expression.
Is no expression “pure”? If being in form fundamentally colors expression and experience then how is essence realized?
Is it only possible following death of the physical body? Is that the only body? The only form? Try it and report back.
Does fully experiencing essence require forgoing identity?
Identity is form.
There is a fundamental nature to that which is manifest as human which transcends any condition or quality. Any doing colors it as an expression of the vehicle and it’s constituent components.
Underneath all of this is presence. No doing, no thinking, no qualities of any sort and yet somehow distinct. A basic and unique expression of fundamental essence. Pure formless awareness is about as close as we can get with the written word.
Simple being is pure expression. Being that which is manifest with no agenda or even identity which may hold one.
Certain approaches to meditation and a great deal of practice can lead to this. Or, there is also that big red shiny candy-like button that drops the floor out of the ride in mid flight.
The one labeled ART.
Allowing our organs to function supporting and cuddling them trusting the intuition they bring form follows function
yes. they are intelligent.